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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [190r] (384/706)
The record is made up of 1 volume (349 folios). It was created in 1914. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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KUH-I-A—KUH-I-B
367
KUH I-ALVl—.
A continuation of the Kuh-i-Muhammadi (q. v.) towards the north-west.
It bounds the Qaiz plateau on the north..—(Schindler.)
1 KUH-I-ALlASHTAN—
Some hills in the Kazvln province, north of the Jamalabad district. The
village Bivarzln lies on their southern slopes.— (Schindler.)
| KUH-I-AMABLU—
A spur of the Elburz, on the right side of the Safid Hud and opposite
Rudbar in Gilan. It gets its name from the Amarlu tribe ; beyond it to
the east is the Zarin Kuh.— (Schindler.)
KUH-I-AMRULLAH—
A high peak in Kirmanshah overlooking the Kuh-i-Bizap,— (Rozario).
[ KtjH-I-ARA—
A mountain in the Jajrud valley, in the fork formed by the Lavasan and
j Jajrud rivers ; altitude 6 ,500'.— (Schindler).
; KUH-I-ARPACHAl—
The hills to the south of Arpachai village (q. v.).—(Schindler:)
KUH-I-ASPAK—
The northern spur of the Kuh-i-Kharzan, reaching down to Pachinar.
The high road between Mazrah and Pachinar runs along the eastern
s slopes.— (Schindler).
KUH-I-ASPI (the white mountain)—
A range of hills forming part of the mountains which bound the Silakhur
plain on the east.
KUH-I-BAJR KHANl—
3e A steep and bare hill crossed by the road from Hamadan to Sinneh at
It Kulkutal, 10^ miles east of Sinneh. (Inzar Gul, 1909.)
KtJH-I-BALtJCH—
A mountain in Kirmanshah, 21 miles north of Kirmanshah city, and
separating the Bilawar valley from the plain of that city. It and the Kuh
* Kmisht form one chain of hills between 6,500 feet and 7,500 feet in height.
Many of its slopes are very precipitous, and it is only passable by mountain-
00 neers—(Vaughan.)
KUH-I-BALtJN—
A black rocky peak on the south side of the Gavarra river, which there
is forms the boundary between Kirmanshah and Persian Kurdistan, south-
o!) eas t 0 f Kaleh, where the Kandula Sinneh road crosses the river. It presents
a knife edge east and west and is flat to north and south.—(Bwfon.)
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The item is Volume II of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1914 edition).
The volume comprises the north-western portion of Persia, bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north by the Russo-Persian frontier and Caspian Sea; on the east by a line joining Barfarush, Damghan, and Yazd; and on the south by a line joining Yazd, Isfahan, and Khanikin.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements (towns, villages, provinces, and districts); communications (roads, bridges, halting places, caravan camping places, springs, and cisterns); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, valleys, mountains and passes). Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, resources, trade, and agriculture.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
A Note (folio 4) makes reference to a map at the end of the volume; this is not present, but an identical map may be found in IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/1 (folio 636) and IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/2 (folio 491).
Printed at the Government of India Monotype Press, Simla, 1914.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (349 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a list of authorities (folio 6) and a glossary (folios 343-349).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at inside back cover with 351; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/1
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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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